Buddy the Gob
| Buddy the Gob | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Buddy) series | |
| Directed by | Isadore Freleng |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by | Jack Carr (uncredited) |
| Music by | Norman Spencer |
| Animation by |
Jack King Ben Clopton |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | January 13, 1934 (USA) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Buddy's Show Boat (1933) |
| Followed by | Buddy and Towser (1934) |
Buddy the Gob is an American animated short film, produced and released by Warner Bros. on January 13, 1934. It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was the first cartoon supervised by Friz Freleng; the musical score is by Norman Spencer. The theme music played at the beginning is "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean."
A great Navy gunboat sails toward the audience and fires her weapons; several other ships go on behind it. Buddy is a "gob", a sailor onboard one of the ships, and is excited to see that they have made port in China. Jumping from the side of his ship and into a rowboat, Our Hero makes his way to land.
In the Chinese city, now, we see that a large woman carries her four children, attached by their hair to a pole straddled across her shoulders; Buddy turns a corner and sees an older gentleman expand and compress himself vertically in order to read a poster on the side of a building; when the man has left, Buddy goes to read the message, which converts, for our benefit, into English: "Grand Celebration To-day: the 150th Birthday Anniversary of the Sacred Dragon: a beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Dragon. Come one! Come all!" Leaping from straw hat-to-straw hat of five men arranged from back-to-front in ascending order of height, Buddy manages to see the grand celebration: a baton wielder bounces his belly; a drum, held by two marchers, is host to six tiny people who jump upon it; in addition to trumpeters and tiny men whose hats double as cymbals, the procession happens to include a pianist! One of the masked dancers in the parade is a caricature of Jimmy Durante (a favorite target of Warner Bros. cartoons of the time.)
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